Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete past participle of wash.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- p. p. of
wash .
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- verb archaic Alternative past participle of
wash . - adjective archaic
clean
Etymologies
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Examples
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Out from their secret chambers they come, with washen face and brave lips to do their duty and refrain themselves.
The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011
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Out from their secret chambers they come, with washen face and brave lips to do their duty and refrain themselves.
The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011
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And anon, as they had washen and risen, all knights that would joust made them ready; by then they were ready on horseback there were seven hundred knights.
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An you can do a washen, old woman, with no work atall.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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“I did see him hand out some washen powders an soap—that good yaller napthie kind—but when it come to me I got th ‘Nah,’” and smiling more widely she flung out her hands as Zadkiewicz had done to show their emptiness.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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Why, this trouble ull lay her up most a th winter—she was a wonderen when you could git down to do th washen.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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Ye'll see them i 'the mornin' gaen awa 'berfit to the skule, an' a seerip piece i 'their hand, wi' fient o 'hand or face o' them washen, an 'their claes as greasy as a cadger's pooch.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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But you are surely a queer man to be a vagabond at the petticoat-tails of a spae-wife, "said I." I've had my chance of common life, city and town, and the company of ladies with broidery and camisole and washen faces, "he answered with no hesitation," and give me the highroad and freedom and the very brute of simplicity.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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You feel in Brooke's list that he liked doing things as well as feasting his passive senses; these 'plates', 'holes in the ground,' 'washen stones,' the cold graveness of iron, and so forth.
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There is nothing so crouse, as a new washen louse.
Collection of Scotch Proverbs Pappity Stampoy
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